| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1843 - Liczba stron: 592
...to the waist , and fair, Bui ended foul in many a scaly fold , Voluminous and vast , a serpenl arm'd With mortal sting : about her middle round A cry of hell-hounds never ceasing hark'd With wide Cerberean mouths full loud, and rung A hideous peal : yet , when they list , would... | |
| Knox (Captain, Charles Henry) - 1843 - Liczba stron: 474
...woman,) the daughters of Lear, the spouse of Macbeth, the old lady recorded by Milton, that " Secm'd woman to the waist and fair, But ended foul in many a snaky fold," who met the fallen angel at a particular gate ; female ghouls (if there are any) and various... | |
| John Epy Lovell - 1844 - Liczba stron: 900
...circling fire, Yet unconsumed. Before the gates there sat On either side a formidable shape ; The one seemed woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul...Cerberean mouths full loud, and rung A hideous peal. Far less abhorred than these Vexed Scylla, bathing in the sea that parts Calabria from the hoarse Trinacrian... | |
| William Harris Rule - 1844 - Liczba stron: 430
...to mind an almost prophetic comparison of the great poet, descriptive of a kindred personage, who " seemed woman to the waist and fair ; But ended foul...many a scaly fold, Voluminous and vast ; a serpent arm'd With mortal sting. About her middle round A cry of hell-hounds never ceasing bark'd With wide... | |
| C. P. Bronson - 1845 - Liczba stron: 396
...enter not into the <к> /ton. Before the gate there sat, On cither side, a formidable iho.pt. The one seemed woman — to the waist, and fair , But ended...a scaly fold, Voluminous and vast ; — a serpent arm'd With mortal stings. The of Aer shape, If shape It might be eall'd, that shape had non*, Or substance... | |
| C. P. Bronson - 1845 - Liczba stron: 390
...eu." tion. ' Before the gnte there sat, On either side, a formidable shape. The one seemed mom an — to the waist, and fair , But ended foul, in many a scaly fold, Voluminous and vast ; — a serpent artn'd With mortal sting s. The other shape, If shape it might be eall'd, that shape had nnw, Or substance... | |
| Richard Mant (bp. of Down, Connor and Dromore.) - 1845 - Liczba stron: 110
...Desinit in piscem mulier formosa superne*. Or, as the same idea is expressed by Milton : The one seem'd woman to the waist, and fair : But ended foul in many a scaly fold Voluminous and vast. — Par. Lost, II. 650. You will, however, at once apprehend my allusion : in exemplification of which... | |
| C. P. Bronson - 1845 - Liczba stron: 330
...the action, Before the gate there sat, On either side, a formidable shape. The one seemed iceman — to the waist, and fair ; But ended foul, in many a scaly fold, foluminoue and vast ; — a serpent arm'd With mortal stings. The other shape, If shape it might be... | |
| Samuel Niles Sweet - 1846 - Liczba stron: 372
...Yet unconsumed. 4. Before the gates there sat, On either side, a formidable shape ; The one seem'd woman to the waist, and fair ; But ended foul in many a scaly fold, Voluminous and vast ; a serpent arm'd With mortal sting ; about her middle round, A cry of hell-hounds never ceasing, bark'd, With... | |
| John Milton - 1847 - Liczba stron: 604
...fire, Yet nnconsumed. Before the gates there sat, On either side, a formidable shape ; The one seem'd woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul, in many a scaly fold, 650 Voluminous and vast, a serpent arm'd With mortal sting : about her middle round A cry of Hell-hounds... | |
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